Museum exhibit /Group photograph of a brigade of plasterers of the Iurga Communal Dwelling Section (ZhKO).
A group photograph of a brigade of plasterers of a Communal Dwelling Section [zhilishno-kommunal’nyi otdel’], taken in 1956 in Iurga. Third on the left in the top row is Lidiia Petrovna Gets (born 1929). L.P. Gets had been a special settler in the Iurga region since 1945, her special settler status was revoked in February 1956). The photograph was given to the Iurga Municipal Local History Museum in 2005, in preparation for the exhibition: “Nemtsy v Sibiri: stroitel’stvo goroda Iurgi i sud’by spetsposelentsev” [“The Germans in Siberia: the Building of the Town of Iurga and the Fate of the Special Settlers”]. 
 
 
 
 
Date of acquisition2005
 
Thematic indexDeportation
 
Thematic indexInternal Exile and Special Settlements
 
Thematic indexAfter the Release
 
Date and place of creation1956, Iurga.
 
MaterialsPhotographic paper
 
Description of exhibitA black-and-white picture of a group of 21 women. They are seated and standing in three rows: those in the front row are seated; the second and third rows are standing.
 
State of preservationThere are insignificant scratches.
 
Detailed annotationA group photograph of a brigade of plasterers of a Communal Dwelling Section [zhilishno-kommunal’nyi otdel’], taken in 1956 in Iurga, Kemerovo oblast’. Third on the left in the top row is Lidiia Petrovna Gets (born 1929). L.P. Gets was born in the village of Kleinliebental (today Malodolinskoe), Ovidiopol’sk region, Odessa oblast’. In 1944 German troops transported her, together with her mother Iu.M. Gets, to Poland to do forced labour, and later to Germany. In 1945 she was liberated by Soviet troops and sent, together with her mother, to a special settlement in the Iurga region of Kemerovo oblast’. Her special settler status was revoked on 20.02.1956). The photograph was given to the Iurga Municipal Local History Museum in 2005, in preparation for the exhibition: “Nemtsy v Sibiri: stroitel’stvo goroda Iurgi i sud’by spetsposelentsev” [“The Germans in Siberia: the Building of the Town of Iurga and the Fate of the Special Settlers”]. Until it was given to the Museum, the photo was kept in the personal collection of L.P. Gets.
 
PersonsGec Iustina Markusovna, exiled together with her daughter
 
PersonsGec (married name Riazanova) Lidiia Petrovna, creator of the collection
 
Web page?Yes
 
 
Museum exhibit /Group photograph of a brigade of plasterers of the Iurga Communal Dwelling Section (ZhKO).